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Microsoft ‘Genuine Advantage’ – Kill Your PC ?

Boy am I glad I don’t use Windows! I don’t have to worry about another company deciding that I don’t have the right to use my computer..

There is a ZDNet blog article relating a conversation someone had with a Microsoft support person which was posted to the interesting people list in which the MS support person said:

“in the fall, having the latest WGA will become mandatory and if its not installed, Windows will give a 30 day warning and when the 30 days is up and WGA isn’t installed, Windows will stop working, so you might as well install WGA now.”

I don’t think this is actually likely to be true as the only way they could be sure to disable Windows it if WGA wasn’t installed is to have planned this from the first release of Windows XP, otherwise they’d have no guarantee that the code they need to do this would be installed.

However, the ZDNet person questioned Microsoft and only got this in response:

As we have mentioned previously, as the WGA Notifications program expands in the future, customers may be required to participate. Microsoft is gathering feedback in select markets to learn how it can best meet its customers’ needs and will keep customers informed of any changes to the program.

Now given that MSFT is already being sued over WGA for violating the Washington Consumer Protection Act, Washington Anti-Spyware Laws, California Consumer Legal Remedies Act, California Anti-Spyware Laws, California Business and Professions Code and California’s Unfair Competition Law you would think that they would take this opportunity for a good PR exercise about it..

RIGHT CLICK COPY AND PASTE IN THE NOTEPAD NOW CLICK FILE SAVE AS uninstall.bat

OK YOU HAVE ALL THE FILES MADE GO ON GOOGLE AND DOWNLOAD SLEEP.EXE
AFTER YOU DOWNLOAD THAT PUT ALL OF THESE FILES IN A FOLDER NAMED KEY PUT UNINSTALL.BAT IN A FOLDER NAMED
UNINSTALL INSIDE THE KEY FOLDER.

(RECOMMENDED) ON YOUR COMPUTER (BEFORE INSTALLING) RUN THE GetRegKeys.bat TO BACKUP YOUR ORIGINALL KEYS BEFORE
INSTALLING PUT THE BACKUP KEYS IN THE UNINSTALL FOLDER THE uninstall.bat FILE WILL RE REGISTER THE KEYS
WHEN YOU RUN uninstall.bat

DOUBLE CHECK ALL YOUR WORK IF IT ALL LOOKS THE SAME AS THE INSTRUCTIONS

THEN DOUBLE CLICK INSTALL.BAT “FROM THE KEY FOLDER ON YOUR DESKTOP”

NOTE THE UNINSTALL WORKS THE SAME WAY “FROM THE KEY FOLDER ON YOUR DESKTOP”

THAT’S IT LOG OFF AND LOG BACK ON NO REBOOT IS NEEDED

WHEN XP COMES UP YOU SHOULD SEE THE COMMAND WINDOW MINIMIZED IN THE TASKBAR.

WHEN XP COMES UP RIGHT CLICK THE TASK BAR CLICK TASK MANAGER

CLICK THE PROCESSES TAB AND YOU SHOULD SEE SLEEP.EXE AS A PROCESS IT WILL DISSAPEAR IN 35 SECONDS

AFTER IT DISSAPEARS

CLICK START SETTINGS CONTROL PANEL SYSTEM LOOK AT THE PRODUCT ID BELOW “REGISTERED TO” YOU SHOULD NOW SEE THE PRODUCT ID

OF THE XP YOU GOT IT FROM AND YOU WILL BE LEGIT FOR WGA (AS LONG AS THE COMPUTER YOU GOT IT FROM WAS LEGIT)

AND MICROSCUM DOES NOT FIND OUT ABOUT THIS AND MAKE THE KEYS TAMPER-PROOF.

THE FUNNY PART OF THIS WHOLE THING IS 8 FILES TOTALING 134KB JUST WIPED OUT ALL MICROSOFT’S EFFORTS TO CONTROL XP

ANOTHER FUNNY THING ABOUT THIS IS THE XP CORP NON ACTIVATION STAYS IN PLACE SO YOU CAN REINSTALL XP-CORP THEN REINSTALL

THIS WORKAROUND OR CHANGE ALOT OF HARDWARE AND NOT HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT ACTIVATION.

Sigh, I don’t recommend people try the above, it’s probably in contravention of your EULA with Microsoft..

The much better solution is to not use Windows in the first place and stick to Free Software such as Linux – Ubuntu seems to make most people happy and I use the KUbuntu variant as I prefer the KDE desktop to Gnome.

g. Change any digit of the value of the OOBETimer registry entry, and then click OK.

Note This step deactivates Windows.
h. Quit Registry Editor.

AFTER THIS

Remove malicious files. To do this, follow these steps: a. Click Start, click Search, and then search for all the following files in the Windows folder. Delete any files that you find.
• Reset5.exe
• Reset5.dll
• Reset5.dat
• Reset5.dt*

can any budy help me to come out of this problem given some corporate keys to validate it
caution: i used many patch cracks but nothing works even key changers fail s…
note; i register it at the time of installation but i think its no. uses exceeds
so guys plz help me

My suggestion would be to try out Ubuntu Linux, it is no where near as hard to install as you might think and you’ll get tons of free software (including an entire office suite) that is completely legal.

You won’t need to worry about licenses expiring, virus checkers or anti-spyware checkers..